turnips needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
turnips is the highest-scoring word from turnips, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in turnips — and it is turnips itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with print, ruins and strip. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including print, strip and trips.
Rearranging the letters in turnips produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuts, pins and pits. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including pins, pits and puts.
Unscrambling turnips turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, nut and pin. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including pin, pit and put.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are pi and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in turnips plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in turnips and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
turnips is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for turnips. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
turnips is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turnips unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is turnips, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from turnips earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in turnips produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.